00:00The third day of Vice President Sara Duterte's impeachment trial begins with defense lawyer Carlo Narvaza cross-examining witness NBI
00:07agent John Mark Calilong.
00:09Narvaza makes a motion to play excerpts of the two-hour press conference of Zulaika Lopez, the vice president's chief
00:15of staff.
00:30When the first order of lawyers was an N.R. to lift that order of contempt because they said that
00:38was the procedure.
00:40If they were not able to rule on that, how were they able to come out with an order to
00:45transfer me to the women's correctional in the dead of the night?
00:50I mean, why is that? Why do people don't have rights? Why do you just go to your room and
00:55then just get...
00:58Narvaza attempts to portray the NBI as being under the thumb of Duterte's political rival, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.,
01:05and questions the alleged inconsistencies in the witness's affidavit of transcription.
01:09Prosecution lawyer Amando Ligutan objects to the defense's line of questioning
01:13and argues that the defense is confronting the witness on minuscule differences between the transcript and the video.
01:19How can it be relevant? How can it be relevant assuming but not conceding
01:24that these two minuscule words, detainee and accused, are not reflected in the transcript
01:31when in fact this witness said he investigated not only on the basis of the transcript
01:36but on the basis of the video that he himself viewed?
01:39In his recap after the hearing, Rappler's Jairo Boliedo points out
01:43the defense's main objective today was to, quote,
01:45humanize the vice president.
01:47It's all to establish that what triggered Duterte was the persecution of her chief of staff
01:51and threats posed to her family by the alleged plot Oplan Romanov.
01:55Vice President Sara Duterte's defense team basically took the entire afternoon to humanize her,
02:02to pakita na tao lang din siya nasasaktan as a defense doon sa kanyang alleged threats
02:08dito kay President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at sa kanyang pamilya.
02:13Unfortunately, it took the entire afternoon for the defense to prove that point.
02:18Meantime, the prosecution says it will present a witness
02:21who will testify on the alleged hitman mentioned in Duterte's statements.
02:25The prosecution also asks the impeachment court to compel Lopez to attend the trial next week.
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